Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 4000.504. Failure to ratify plan

(a) Submission.--If the plan is not ratified as provided in section 503(d),  1 the county shall meet with the advisory committee to discuss the reasons that the plan was not ratified. The advisory committee shall submit a recommendation concerning a revised county plan to the county within 45 days after it becomes apparent that the plan has failed to obtain ratification.  The advisory committee's recommendation shall specifically address the objections stated by municipalities in their resolutions of disapproval of the county plan.

(b) Adoption of revised plan by county.--The governing body of the county shall adopt a revised plan within 75 days after it has become apparent that the original plan has failed to obtain ratification.  Not later than five days following adoption of a revised plan by the governing body of the county, the plan shall be sent to municipalities within the county for ratification.  If a municipality does not act on the revised plan within 45 days of its submission to such municipality, it shall be deemed to have ratified the plan.  If more than one-half of the municipalities, representing more than one-half of the county's population as determined by the most recent decennial census by the United States Bureau of the Census, ratify the revised plan, then the county, within ten days of ratification, shall submit the revised plan to the department for approval.

(c) Statement of objections.--A municipality may not disapprove of a proposed revised county plan unless the municipality's resolution of disapproval contains a concise statement of its objections to the plan.  Each municipality shall immediately transmit a copy of its resolution of disapproval to the county.

(d) Failure to ratify revised plan.--If the plan is not ratified as provided in subsection (b), the county shall submit the revised plan to the department for approval.  The revised plan shall be submitted within ten days after it is apparent that the plan has failed to obtain ratification and shall be accompanied by the county's written response to the objections stated by municipalities in the resolutions of disapproval.